My partner and I have been studying different trickster traditions together for years but lately we've become so academic and analytical about it that we've lost the actual mischief and playfulness these figures represent. We dissect Coyote stories and Anansi tales like we're writing dissertations instead of letting them change how we see the world.
More people experience this than they realize.
Intellectual pursuit has displaced the transformative spirit they originally sought to understand.
“Where Are You with Trickster figures across traditions?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.